Just Make Sure It's Wet . . .

[waitingforgo]

Wikipedia currently has an article that uses italics to serve as the mildest warning for one of the most unsafe experiments I've ever seen:

[The Leidenfrost effect] has also been used in some dangerous demonstrations, such as dipping a wet finger in molten lead... without injury to the demonstrator.

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[notthebuddha]

That's just a finger. It's the "mouthful of liquid nitrogen" that comes next that really gets me. Nothing like risking frostbite the the arteries in your throat and dying of the perfect icecream headache.